Meet the Bay Ridge high schoolers leading the charge for safer streets
Leila Mullarkey’s family knows firsthand the dangers pedestrians face when they cross the street in Bay Ridge. “My mother got hit by a car 10 years ago,” she told the Brooklyn Eagle. “My brother got hit by a car last year.”
Both her mother and brother survived the ordeals, but the two incidents made Mullarkey, a student at Bay Ridge Prep, eager to get involved in the community and work toward making streets safer.
“I want to be able to cross the street with my friends and not worry about getting killed,” she said.